Friedman's New World

I haven’t read Tom Friedman’s new book, Thank You for Being Late, but I have heard him talk about it extensively on TV, especially with Charlie Rose.  I have like Friedman’s elitist ideas for years, but the Trump revolution has cast a shadow over them.  Friedman loves immigration and technology, but he doesn’t put the two together except in advocating for the immigration of highly skilled techies.  He does not see any technological solution to Mexican day laborers.

His lack of vision is partly due to the fact that Jews in general do work with their hands.  Jews are bankers, writers (like Friedman), professors, politicians, or entrepreneurs; they are not farmers, despite the fictional romance of “Fiddler on the Roof.”  Israeli agriculture owes much of its success to stealing from the Palestinians in the same way that Americans exploit Mexicans.  Jews tend to look down on people who work with their hands, whether they are black, white, or Hispanic.  To Friedman, nobody in the tech industry should waste their time working on problems of manual labor.  Besides, as long as Mexican manual labor costs $5 an hour, it is probably financially impossible to replace it with technology.  Mexican humans are worth less than Friedman’s techie machines.  If Mexican labor were more expensive then it might be possible for the tedhic community that Friedman worships to replace it.  If farm labor were more expensive, there might be a tech startup that would pick fruit or vegetables mechanically.  

I was pleased that Friedman's column in today’s NYT was not so negative on Trump, at least hopeful that Trump can be influenced in the directions that Friedman favors.  

Racist Attacks on Trump

I am tired of hearing about how everybody associated with the Trump transition is racist.  Steve Bannon gets no credit for helping Trump win the election, because Jewish papers and websites are too busy calling him a racist.  Ditto for Senator Jeff Sessions.  Ad hominem attacks are what people use when they don’t have any substantive criticism of them.  These scurrilous, hateful attacks emanate from despicable lowlifes who have access to scandal sheets like the New York Times and the Huffington Post.  The New York Times clearly sold its soul to Hillary Clinton and is left soulless and bitter, stewing in its hatred of President-elect Trump and his supporters.  This is sad because the Times has been, and I hope will again become, a great newspaper.  

I must admit that I don’t understand Jews’ relationship; with Donald Trump.  There is no more Jewish profession than real estate in New York City, except maybe for working at Goldman Sachs.  Somehow Trump as a gentile flourished in an environment dominated by Jews.  His daughter, Ivanka, married a Jew whose father, Charles Kushner, was a real estate competitor with Trump, and Ivanka converted to Judaism.  Her husband, Jared Kushner, has emerged as one of Trump’s most influential advisers, although his father, Charles, was convicted by Chris Christie of political corruption.  

The rich, elite, establishment Jews supported Hillary, while many other Jews, like Bernie Sanders, opposed the elite establishment, represented by Goldman Sachs.  Where does Jared Kushner fit in this spectrum?  I don’t know.  So far, he seems to be in the real Trump camp, which puts him closer to Sander than to Goldman Sachs.  It looks like Jared has spent his career in real estate, unlike Hillary Clinton’s Jewish son-in-law, Marc Mezvinsky,, who worked for Goldman Sachs.  

Because wealthy, New York Jews are so much a part of the elite establishment, it may be hard for Jared to sort through candidates for top positions.  Jewish billionaire Carl Icahn has been a Trump supporter, but so far is not discussed as a possible member of Trump’s administration.  At the moment Jamie Dimon of Morgan Stanley, who is Greek not Jewish, is being discussed as Treasury Secretary; however, Dimon lives in a Jewish world.  His mentor and patron, Sandy Weill, is Jewish, and Dimon’s wife is Jewish.  

Hillary and Sexual Preditors

The media and Hillary Clinton’s campaign were outraged when FBI Director Comey said the FBI was looking at emails found on Anthony Weiner’s laptop that came from Hillary’s private server while she was at the State Department.  No one seems to be concerned that emails she sent while Secretary of State ended up up on a computer that an adult reportedly used to send sexting messages to an underage girl.  What does this say about Hillary’s friends and associates?  

Hillary seems to be an enabler for at least two sexual preditors, her husband Bill and Anthony Weiner.  In addition she, Obama, and the Democratic Party support the idea that dirty old men should be allowed to go to the bathroom with little girls as long as the dirty old men say they think of themselves as girls.  

I don’t buy this whole sexual identity thing.  If some crazy man says he thinks he is God, do we act as if he is God and worship him?  What is the difference if a crazy man says he thinks he is a woman?  The first man is not God, and the second man is not a woman.  They both have severe mental problems.  In the first case we put the man in an asylum, in the second we say let that crazy old man do whatever he wants with little girls.  It looks like your average psychiatrist is a sex pervert, but one who agrees with Hillary.  

Jewish Fed

My main concern about Jews in America is Jewish domination of the Federal Reserve Bank, the Fed.  Four Jews have been chairs of the Fed for over thirty years.  I am mainly concerned about two of them.  I think Paul Volker and Ben Bernanke were good, fair chairmen.  Volker got a bad financial situation involving inflation and high interest rates under control.  Bernanke engineered a brilliant response to the Great Recession with Treasury Secretary Hank Paulson.  I am less enthusiastic and less trusting of Alan Greenspan and the current chairwoman Janet Yellen.  Greenspan steered the Fed through the 1987 stock market crash and through the 9/11 attacks on Wall Street. But I think America started to change significantly under Greenspan’s tenure. While I want to give Betnanke the benefit of the doubt, income inequality became worse during his term. America has seen a significant rise to dominance of Jews during this period. It may be that they are just smarter, harder working, better businessmen or better gamblers, or there may be some. Nefarious reason for their rise.

While many Jews are not religious, it no doubt helps their self-confidence to grow with a history of being God’s chosen people. On the other hand, they are accused of killing their own Messiah. Because of discrimination against them they tend to band together as a tribe. But once bound together they argue incessantly. Although the vast majority of successful Jews support Hillary Clinton, a Christian, her main Democratic opponent, Bernie Sanders, was a Jew. Bernie argued strongly against income inequality, which had made many of his fellow Jews fantastically wealthy. I side with Bernie against income inequality.

On Friday, Bloomberg interviewed Bill Gross, who said that the Fed has been a slave to financial markets, rather than the GDP for 10, 20 or 30 years, i.e., the period Jews have headed the Fed.  Since Jews predominate in the financial community and white folks predominate in the ordinary labor economy, Gross essentially says the Fed has favored Jews over white people ever since Jews have been in control of the Fed.  

The other side of this issue, however, is the failure of the Congress and the administration to take any fiscal measures to improve the economy.  The white Republican Congress has put the whole burden of recovering from the Great Recession on the Fed.  This is a total failure of leadership.  The main difference is that Congress has failed to act on policy grounds, while the Fed’s decisions have been to some extent racist.  But the Republican leadership of Congress is certainly not morally unsullied.  They are just motivated by different biases than the Fed.  They are biased for whites and against blacks and Hispanics, while the Fed is biased in favor of Jews and against other races.   

Of course the Fed chair does not run the Fed’s Open Market Committee which votes on interest rates, but the chair and the vice-chair, both of whom are Jewish, have more influence over the vote than the other members.  I think CNBC today interviewed Dallas Fed Bank head Robert Kaplan, whom a website called NNDB says is a trustee of the Jewish Theological Seminary and the Jewish Museum of New York, as well a long time veteran of Goldman Sachs ; so, he also appears to be Jewish.